Re: Seeking synthesizer advice

[Hawkeye255@aol.com]

If you want a great synth and don't want to spend enough to buy a herd of 
PRS 
guitars, look at some older (slightly) "workstations", like Roland 
JV-1000, 
or Korg 01W's and the "T-serise" (T1, T2, T3).  I've owned Trinity's and 
have 
lusted after the new Triton, but actually my venerable Korg T3 is all I 
need 
to create serious music and/or chaos, whichever.  And, as a bonus, it has 
a 
very tractable, realtime looping phrase feature that I use daily.  In 
fact, 
many times that's exactly where I start...then when things are getting 
pretty 
well stirred up there for background 'ambience', I grab a guitar or 
mandolin 
or bass or my Prophecy or a mic and start looping and sampling over that.  
(Sigh) So many fun things to try, so little time.  ;-)

good hunting,
        hawkeye